Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~  Unknown

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

For the record, Ruth, I would have welcomed any path my life took, so long as it was with you.

Give your full heart to whatever you do. It will ensure that you are always rich in happiness. If you have that, then you will always be exactly where you are supposed to be in life.

Because if you even make a tiny bit of room in either of those places for anyone else, then something in your relationship isn't right.

Happy endings didn't happen for cheaters, or heroines who started one relationship without finishing another.

Family is not an important thing. It is everything.

If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance.

If you get killed. I'm going to be furious." "I love you too. Come On.

I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

Will you be my forever, Donia?

I waited here while you talked to Sorcha, who, by the way, is crazy. Now you are off to the mortal world where the crazier one is? ... I was there, Devlin. Bananach could've killed you, and really? We've been bound together for like five minutes and you're suddenly darting off into danger without me. I don't think so.

You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my passion, my fury, my soul. Shall i explain further?

And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.

Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." She looked away. "Everyday"--then he was there, lifting her into his arms, holding her like she was fragile and precious--"I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional.

What are you going to do? What do you want to do?" she prompted. "I'm going to go try to help Niall. He's not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what's wrong," he told her. "Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.

But I want to be near you always," he reminded her. "But you'll lose everyone else, and..." "I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.

This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's.... All you can be." He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner---and that's everything.